@ Adrian Tritschler · Monday, Dec 25, 2023 · 1 minute read · Update at Dec 25, 2023 ·
-.-km / 30:47 / 121bpm / 17.0°C
Boxing Day 2019 and i went for a ride … then every day since, rain, hail or separated AC joint. Four years in a row. How silly is that. Amazing support from my family, despite the periodic joking questions of “How about you have a day off today” we’ve somehow managed to squeeze in time and space for a ride every day, anywhere and everywhere
My 1461st day in a row riding a bike; the last 6 days of 2019, my and all of 2021, 2022 and 2023 so far…
Vanity site? Technology experiment? Learning tool? Blog? Journal? Diary? Photo album? I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you…
I experiment. I play. I write and I take pictures. Some of the site is organised around topics, other parts are organized by date, then there’s always the cross-references between them.
Its all been here a fairly long time. Like the papers on my desk, or the books on the bedside table, the pile just grew… and it all grew without much plan or structure. I try not to break URLs, so historical oddities abound.
Long ago it started as a learning experiment with a few static HTML pages, then I added a bit of server-side includes and some very ugly PHP. A hand-built journal/blog on top of that PHP, then a few experiments in moving to various static publishing systems. I’ve never wanted a database-based blogging engine, so over the years I’ve tried PHP, nanoblogger, emacs-muse, silkpage and docbook before settling on Emacs Org mode for writing and jekyll for publishing. But the itch remained… I never really liked jekyll and the ruby underneath always seemed so much black magic. So now the latest incarnation is Org mode and hugo.